Migración y desarrollo: una revisión crítica de su relación a través del estudio de la población migrante de la ciudad de Macará entre los años 2001-2018

Abstract

Abstract: Migration is a social phenomenon that has important economic, political and cultural consequences in today s world. For some time, certain hegemonic organisms have forced a positive reading of migration, arguing that the migrant is an agent of development in their country of origin. The objective of this investigation is to demystify this perspective, through the study of the migrant population of the Macará canton, in the province of Loja. For this pourpose, it was designed an investigation that combines the quantitative and qualitative approaches. Regarding the sample, twenty-five migrants agreed to participate in the study. The techniques used were the survey and the interview; the instruments were a survey questionnaire with 22 closed questions, and an interview questionnaire with 8 open questions. The results show that Macará s migrants are not agents of development for several reasons: first, they have not started businesses or financed social projects in their place of origin; second, remittances are only sufficient for the subsistence of the family; Third, they do not participate in any transnational migrant organization.